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Hello!
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Hello!
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Is everything allright?
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Yes.
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Ok, so this is the microphone.
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Today's meeting was summoned jointly by the Committee and the Centre,
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to understand along with the villagers what is truly desired
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and what is possible to achieve.
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I have just retired, after having been a nurse for 35 years.
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I have been living in the village for a month.
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And I am looking forward to live a long happy life here.
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So be it.
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And to contribute for the community.
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We are part of the problems and we must solve them.
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WELCOME TO THE VILLAGE OF AMOREIRAS
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THE DREAM VILLAGE 2011
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The land we live in belongs to our grandchildren,
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we must live on she offers us,
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without wasting it nor depending on other regions.
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WELCOME TO AMOREIRAS VILLAGE
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The Amoreiras village is our land
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which we must manage sustainably.
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The first step is to dream (to dream).
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FIRST COURSE ON TRANSITION INITIATIVES IN PORTUGAL
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We must solve our problems, as we are a part of them.
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I believe this is a very important ethical part,
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but there are also ecological and humanistic parts,
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and a holistic part too.
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The first change is the need to recognize the need
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for a change, at personal and community levels.
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The need to alter our present human behaviours
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that impair the planet.
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The way by which our society is lead nowadays is not sustainable.
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So this offers an alternative relatively to all this
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unsustainable consumerist behaviour we live upon.
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The most important issue at the start of a transition group
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is the pioneer team.
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To meet other people that are already involved
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or wish to become involved
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and understand how I may contribute to such a transition.
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We are trying to inspire, to share and to provide energy
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to all those that consider that the transition model
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is a highly important tool of cultural transformation
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and as a shift towards a more resilient world
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where we all can be happier.
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And the first step is to gather people that think similarly.
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FUNCHEIRA
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We are waiting for the volunteers that will perform the inquiries at the village.
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And that's it.
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It's hot and we keep awaiting.
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It came to oppose a large problem here in Portugal
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which is desertification of its inland and rural areas.
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There's a major desertification danger...
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With such desertification very important manners and traditions
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for the Portuguese history and identity are being lost.
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There are many villages like this in Portugal
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in the same or worst conditions.
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Villages still hold an important role on the development of countries.
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With this project at the village hope can be attained
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and elder people can believe that their lives are not over yet.
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Villages produce goods that are needed in the cities
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and cities provide for goods needed at the villages.
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The ideal would be not to neglect any of the parts.
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Instead of being dependent on other countries,
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maybe there could be a sustainable Portugal.
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It will result on the mutual help and better organization of the people
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so more people are attracted to the village.
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It would be really good that just some of the people's dreams
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could become real.
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It would be really good.
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The village would truly need it to become more dynamic
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and self-sustained, which is what was really needed.
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With a lot of work, all together, maybe we can achieve some of those dreams,
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I wouldn't say all, but most of them or the most essential ones.
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CLEANER VILLAGE
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NEATER VILLAGE
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MARKET
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VILLAGE MARKET
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"I've been a little seed and now I evolve"
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THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL SEEDS
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"In Spring my leaves grow"
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HOW AGRICULTURE AROUSE
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"And in Summer the fruits do too"
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GENETIC EROSION ON FIELD
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"Oh village, oh village"
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At least we could make some of the dreams real...
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"Oh village of Amoreiras, all the beautiful girls..."
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The meetings' purpose is to gather ideas
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and try to reach a conclusion so something can be done.
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MEETING: HEALTH
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We have came to a conclusion, we already have nurses.
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It is working and the medical appointments are ongoing.
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I came to measure my blood pressure.
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So have I.
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Hello!
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Hello!
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We are going to make a lot of noise here at the village.
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One of the dreams consisted in having more spaces and activities dedicated for children.
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CHILDREN'S COFFEE SHOP
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MEETING: CHILDREN
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SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN
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If parents want the village to develop they must help.
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"They do not know that dreaming
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"is a life's constancy
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"as concrete and defined
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"as any other thing
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A FILM BY
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CONVERGENCY CENTRE
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"as this grey stone
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& VILLAGE OF AMOREIRAS
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" where I sit and rest
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"as this gentle stream
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"in serene jolts
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"as these tall pinetrees
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"stirring gold and green
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This is the proposed challenge!
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"as these crying trees
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"in blue enebriations
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"They don't know that dreaming
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"is wine and foam and yeast
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"a merry thirsty little being
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"with a pointed snout
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"in a perpetual movement
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"They don't know nor dream
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"that the dream comands life
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"and everytime a man dreams
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"the world jumps and moves forward
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"just like a coloured ball
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"in the hands of a child."
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Poem «Pedra Filosofal» by António Gedeão, Music by Manuel Freire